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Re: To "repeat after me..."
Posted by cam on 5/07/08

You have made my day! Don't you wish you could stoop to that
level??? Thanks for a good laugh, and some sound advice.

On 5/06/08, Repeat after me: "I'm the boss, applesauce..." wrote:
> "Shut your lip, potato chip!" (That's an old jumproping chant.)
>
> You're not going to change "her" opinions if the adults in her
> life are encouraging her unquestioning loyalty to the ignorant
> cretin of the week. In a couple of years her hormones will go
> bonkers and she'll discover adolescent rebellion. If she's
> lucky, she'll develop an uncontrollable crush on the tall,
> babyfaced president of her school's Ecology Club. Until then,
> she's intellectually doomed, so accept that and adjust your
> goals for her accordingly.
>
> However, you do need to limit the amount of disruption she
> causes in your classroom. Give her one opportunity each day
> to express her opinion, but if she wants to waste everybody's
> time by arguing repeatedly, remind her that the class has
> already heard her thoughts on the matter. You can't prevent
> her from swallowing a lot of AM radio nonsense if that's her
> family's church, but that doesn't mean that you or the other
> students in the room have to tolerate a lot of rude,
> bullheaded, AM radio-style arguing. Let her know, graciously
> but absolutely, that she Will Not be modeling that sorry
> behavior in your classroom. I don't know who Glen Beck is
> either, but fortunately, every radio has an OFF button. While
> your students do not, YOU have absolute control over how much
> static your class has to tolerate from a know-it-all ten year
> old. Let her roll her eyes all she wants to; that's easily
> ignored, but running her mouth is an entirely different matter.
>
> On 4/27/08, cam wrote:
>> I have a 10 year old girl in one of my science classes who
>> thinks that the possibility of climate change and global
>> warming is absurd and idiotic. We've been studying the
>> atmosphere and the water cycle, and I showed a united
>> streaming (discovery education) video that in part spoke
>> about the greenhouse gases and the changes that have
>> occurred in the last 100 years. She became so agitated and
>> vocal, that I had to address her concerns. I asked were she
>> got her information and she answered "Have you ever heard of
>> Glen Beck?"
>> Well, no, I've certainly never listened to him (a Rush
>> Limbaugh type)but I had heard of him, I said. "He's not a
>> scientist, is he?" I asked and she said no. When I asked
>> what she based her opinion on (other than what she'd
>> previously said) she said her evidence was "out there-you
>> just have to look." Not very scientific, but she is so
>> opinionated and makes her views VERY CLEAR, that I find it
>> quite unsettling. No matter what evidence I point to, she is
>> a nay-sayer- eyes rolling all the while.
>> We still have some earth day activities planned, and she is
>> such a distraction! Any ideas? A colleague suggested I
>> assign a paper or have a pro/con debate on the issue, but
>> she is the only one who holds these feelings, (and obviously
>> so does her mother!)

Posts on this thread, including this one

• What would you do to combat this thinking?, 4/27/08, by cam.
• Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 4/27/08, by anon.
• Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 4/30/08, by Kevin.
• Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/03/08, by BillofSC.
• Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/03/08, by Joseph Stevens.
• Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/04/08, by Darwin.
• Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/04/08, by tamagosan.
• Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/05/08, by Bill of SC.
• Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/05/08, by Kevin.
• Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/05/08, by Joseph .
• Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/05/08, by anon.
• Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/05/08, by also anon.
• Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/06/08, by Repeat after me: "I'm the boss, applesauce...".
• Re: To "repeat after me...", 5/07/08, by cam.
• Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/07/08, by Darwin.
• Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/08/08, by cam.
• Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?, 5/08/08, by Waski_the_Squirrel.